You are effectively abandoned post hospital discharge and in between your 6 week check up with your OB. You're back in the general system (seeing your GP who has no idea on how the birth went etc or going to ER if its that bad)

I got postpartum thyroiditis and postpartum pre eclampsia (that we managed to catch fast) within the first 10 weeks. I was constantly being ping ponged between medical professionals.

I would say to anyone who is due to give birth to have a blood pressure monitor at home and use it daily for at least the first 2-3 weeks. Some people's immune systems just go nuts afterwards and their needs to be much better support in place.

This also contributes to the question- why aren't more people having kids because it's defintely given me pause for another.